Early 'Vette Triple Play

Early 'Vette Triple Play
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Then I cut the strip to the proper length. This shows the new bracket on the left as compared with the old one on the right.

Here are the replacement brackets installed on the kingpins.

This shows the bolts installed on the ends of the tiie rod.

Finally, the tie rod was attached to the kingpins with the bolts and nuts. The process was a bit tedious, but worth the effort.

A view of the reverse side of the assembly showing the bolts in place.

The completed chassis assembly. I repeated these steps for all three versions.

Next I moved on the interior assemblies. The kit's shifter was pretty "clunky" looking...

...so I found some dressmaker pins at my local discount store that had heads with the right shape. I bent them to the correct shape.